Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode ten, the Lost Hour

[froodle]

British daylight savings time starts at the end of this month, so you'd be well advised to take advantage of that extra hour in bed, unless of course you'd rather spend a year on the run from murderous binmen in a near-empty parallel world. Make sure your watches are set correctly, because we'e about to enter... the Lost Hour!

Comments

[froodle]

I do think it might have been hard to present marshall as the leader or main character if hes got a supporting character who was both smarter and tougher than he was. I mean, I know shes only tiugher because she survived a year alone in the lost hour and kind of had to be just to get by, but thats essentially a years more experiance than marshall has, and in a much more hands on way.

in comparison, with simon being so much younger n dash being in many ways a 'lost' character, as well as having the whole shades of grey morality, its easier to establish mars as the central character with that dynamic.

it is a shame we never got to see her again - maybe they were all intended to come back later on and cancellation is the only reason we never got to see it.

[deifire]

Yeah, I think two of reasons Dash works in the ensemble without taking over (RTAH aside) are that:
a) He is Eerie weirdness, in addition to sometimes fighting it.
b) More often than not, he and Marshall are working at cross purposes for at least part of an episode.

And you're right Simon works because he is so much younger, so "Marshall as older and in charge" is likely to be a permanent part of their dynamic no matter how competent Simon is.

With Janet, you'd kind of start to wonder why is isn't the main character after a while. You couldn't even do a Mulder/Scully thing there.

I really do need to finish some of my future fic where Marshall and Janet do reconnect and try at a relationship when they're older.

[froodle]

oh my god I have such a need for janet centric fic after this convo!!

I really do need to finish some of my future fic where Marshall and Janet do reconnect and try at a relationship when they're older.

I really, realllllyyy want to read this!!